Maxim Bale

Sergeant Maxim Ivanovich Bale (20 June 1984-), codenamed Minotaur, is a Russian Spetsnaz operator that fought against terrorist forces in Ukraine.

Biography
Maxim Bale was born as a fraternal twin alongside his brother Dmitry, both eventually joining the Spetsnaz in 2005 and serving in the counter-terrorism task force known as Alfa Group, where he obtained the codename of Minotaur for being "as strong as a bull" during CQC training.

In the Second Chechen War, Minotaur saved the lives of many of his comrades during the 2009 Kurbanov Hospital siege, though witnessed the wounding of his brother and informed of his death. Blaming himself, Minotaur was honorably discharged for psychological trauma. He wandered the world, working for various PMC groups under the name of "Sergei Krosopuskov". As Sergei, he obtained dozens of arrest warrants in Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia.

In July 2019, he was reunited with his brother and rejoined the Spetsnaz the same year. In March 2020, when Khaled al-Asad of Omar Sulaman's former Syrian Al-Qaeda cell began a full-scale invasion of Berdyansk, Ukraine, Minotaur was deployed to fight against the terrorists in the city.